Community Puzzle Blog

You can add department names, customer service functions, department functions, descriptive words, or other pertinent points onto the puzzle pieces using post-its, stickers, writing implements (markers, colored pencils, and paints all work great), figurines and more. Just about anything you could use on a concept board, you can use on a Community Puzzle.

When handing out the center (inside) puzzle pieces of your community puzzle to your group make sure that each piece is at an identical angle. We recommend that the inner pieces have the nibs up and to the right. This way all the pieces will aim in the same direction and not get twisted when the puzzle is assembled.

First figure out how many pieces will be needed by making a list of bullet points for your team building activity. Make sure that you have enough center pieces.

With this team building puzzle, we worked on a product and customer service theme.

We added stickers for the different departments.

Then mini figurines were added. Small figures were placed to show the company workers and slightly larger mini figurines were added as the customers that we wished to sell to.

Arrow stickers were added to show the communication and dependence of each department and concept.

The finished team building project turned out wonderfully and the concepts help each department to work together easier.

Since the pieces are all the same shape you can easily move the pieces around to show the different possible flows within the organization.

Note: All sorts of glues work well with the puzzles. They are topped with paper so glues & tapes all stick really well.

In this community puzzle blog I will be placing a full-color vinyl sticker logo onto the puzzle. We got our vinyl sticker logos at http://www.industryprinting.net/ .The puzzle below shows a clear backed vinyl sticker, in the second half of this blog we will show what an opaque vinyl sticker will look like. The clear vinyl sticker is much [...]

The Community Puzzle can be any size needed. If you have a group of 1 or a group of 10,000, the puzzle can expand and contract to fit! The puzzle piece design is the reason this puzzle is so flexible. The large center pieces are all the same shape.The center puzzle pieces measure 4 inches by [...]

We have been asked how to put a business logo onto a community puzzle. One fast way is to adhere a vinyl sticker to the assembled puzzle.You can have vinyl logo stickers made at most sign shops. You can take them a clean copy of your logo and they can trace it into the computer [...]

This community puzzle project was inspired by a childhood of imagination and making things myself.This project can be of any theme, from a fun board game to reach a goal (dragon, bug, princess, anything your heart and mind can think up) to a puzzle that helps to teach math or spelling.There are wonderful companies from [...]

This field trip activity can be done while the class is on the field trip or as a classroom activity after the children get back from one. It can be used to reinforce what they learned on the trip in a creative way.The Community Puzzle can be made into any size that you need.You can [...]

There are a couple of ways to decorate your puzzle pieces. Some people like the look of pieces that are completely decorated on the entire surface. Decorating puzzle pieces in this way creates a flow within puzzle from piece to piece. The image below shows the three pieces on the top section illustrating that style [...]

The Community Puzzle is great for team building, parties, wedding guestbooks and so much more. The Community Puzzle can be as small or as big as needed for any size group of people.We are often asked if we sell the puzzle with colored center pieces. The answer is no. However, there is a fast and easy way [...]

This post was initiated by questions on how to color the border on a Community Puzzle.We find that making a black or solid color border on the Community Puzzle makes the inside decorated pieces really pop!For this project you will need:
A Community PuzzleSpray paint (I used black)Remember that spray paints and adhesives dry faster [...]

We found that adding a little glitter to the border of a community puzzle makes the center pieces really stand out!For this project you will need:
A Community PuzzleSpray paint (I used metallic silver to match the glitter) Poly Holographic Centauri Silver in the 0.040 sizeA paint brush Remember that spray paints and adhesives dry faster in [...]